Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 29 April 1938 — Page 3

THE POST-DEMOCRAT, FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1938.

Pickcll Seeks Assessor Post

M. H. Pickell, of Hamilton township, who has spent years of hard and earnest work in the interest of tax reduction and equalization of tax assessments has again entered the race for County AssesMr. Pickell sor on the Democratic ticket. He has been a resident free holder of Delaware County for more than thirty years and due to his constant work along the lines of taxation makes him an ideal Candidate for County Assessor. Mr. Pickell was the Democratic nominee for County Assessor in 1&34 and only lacked 4 votes of being elected in the fall election. Hd served 4 years as a member of the Delaware County Board of Reviews, two of which were years in which real estate was reappraised and in that experience gained a wide knowledge of many of the vital problems and their solution relative to tax equalization that confront the County Assessor. Mr. Pickell is a man who believes that equilization is the most important of all taxation problems and if elected to this most important office he promises to do all that is humanly possible to the end that no tax payer large or small will be asked to pay more than his just proportionate share of the tax burden, and that he will support and promote any and all movements the object of which is to equally distribute the tax burden. In aspiring the office of County Assessor, he views the same as an opportunity for services to all the taxpayers of Delaware County. Mr. Pickell is a member of the Delaware County Farm Bureau and the B.P.O. Elks and has made friends where ever his duties have carried him, he will appreciate any move or effort made in his behalf. GIVE HIM THIS. OPPORTUNITY TO FURTHER 'SERVE YOU. —Adv.

“The thunder makes a lot of noise but it is the lightning that does the business.”

Physical fatigue tends to duce sleep; nervous fatigue duces restlessness.

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Harry Hopkins, Federal Relief Administrator, gets a salary of $1,000 per month.

A CCC regulation requires $22.50 of each enrollee’s monthly salary of $30.00 be sent to his home.

In Pittsburg, Traffic Judge Anthony Rucas assessed a $2.00 fine on his wife, who was charged with a traffic regulation.

The Indian population in the United States is listed at 337,366. When the white man first came to this country the Indian population was estimated at 846,000.

If all the money in circulation in the United States was equally divided there would be $50,38 for every person and if the national debt was equally distributed every person would owe $285.

This year’s beauty specifications for women require that the shoulders be three inches wider than the hips.

Park ‘Fire Station’ is More Bunch Bunk Residents of the section around the north side of McCulloch park —most of them colored—are due to learn shortly that they have been deluded by another Bunch promise. For years this section of the city has demanded better fire protection and during his last campaign Bunch assured them that he would build a fire engine house in the neighborhood and man it with colored firemen. Recently workmen started .to lay the foundation for a building in the park near its northern boundary, and Bunch workers in that section are said to have been telling nearby dwellers that the structure is to be the long-awaited fire station. The truth is the building is to be a shelter house. Under city law no fire station could be erected in a public park. o THE PRESIDENT MUST WIN The Roosevelt recovery campaign must winIt will win if the American people refuse to let the reactionaries confuse their minds on the question of debt. Already the cries go up that this program will cost money, will increase the national debt, will bring on a “wheel-bar-row inflation.” The people must recognize the propaganda for what it is—a malicious attempt to lure the nation to its own destruction. The • way to combat the propaganda is with the clear light of truth, the irrefutable logic of facts. Our people will not be fooled if they understand that the President proposes to spend a sum for recovery less by far than the sums which were spent to win the World war, for which $25,000,000,000 of debt was incurred in only two years. . . Not if they bear in mind that the per capita debt in the U. S. today is less than what it was at the close of the World war . . . that in 1919 it was $242.5 , 7. and that in 1938 it was only $213.04. And above all, let our people remember that recovery money ISN’T WASTED. The President’s foes try to encourage that nation, but dollars spent for recovery so far have borne fruit in bridges, buildings, parks, hospitals, flood control dams, airports, sewage plants, streets, and a thousand other improvements, every one of which is returning to Americans a real dividend in more civilized liv-

ing.

The President is fighting your battle—to protect your job, and the job of your neighbor, and to give a job to the neighbor next door to him. Keep this in mind as the guns of reaction rear. Stand by Roosevelt as he has stood by you.

The New York News with its circulation of 1,600,000 is America’s most widely circulated weekly. There is only one daily in the world with a larger circulation. The Osaka Mainichi, which is printed in Japan, has a circulation of more than 2,000,000 copies.

Lester Holloway On Radio Monday Lester E. Holloway, son-in-law of the late Mayor George R. Dale, is a candidate in next Tuesday’s primary for renomination for county treasurer and is asking Democratic voters for their support in gaining the customary four years in that office. Few young men in politics in Delaware county have attained the personal popularity enjoyed by Mr. Holloway. His smile greets every caller at the treasurer’s office and he goes out of his way to oblige all visitors. Because of the stress of business in his office at this time, with the taxpaying deadline coinciding with the close of the primary campaign, he has been unable to call on his supporters. He will have a message for all the voters of the county when he speaks over radio station WLBC at 6:45 p. m. Monday, on the eve of the primary election. — o— — RECOGNIZING THE HUMAN FACTOR

The chimpanzee is the smartest animal in the world. Even though the gorilla has a more human appearance than any other animal it ranks fourth iiy intelligence among

animals.

The United States patent No. '2,094,614 .has been granted to one Otto L. Miller on a process for treating cigarettes to give off colored smoke. Ladies may-have cigarettes giving off smoke in a color to match their finger nail polish.

The United States, Canada, and Mexico have agreed to cooperate in protecting wild life.

There are many people in the world who, given a little authority, become petty tryants. They make rules in regard to everything, and they take peculiar pride in enforcing them. The more rules they have the more rigidly they apply them, the surer the are that they are just and fair to all. In many respects, such persons are shirkers of responsibility. They soon become enmeshed in their own regulations, and cannot decide any individual case on its merits, though, as every sensible person knows, there are always plenty of individual cases that cannot be dealt with justly under rigid rules. Business agencies, social agencies, governmental agencies and educational agencies all need more people in responsible positions with the intelligence and the courage to decide according to the facts and not by set rules. It is people with machine like minds filling multitudes of the lesser executive positions in the business world, in the educational world, and in the world of public activities that produce the kind of regimentation that realy deserves condemnation. In this connection, it is a pleasure to give praise to Gov. M. Clifford Townsend for the rare wisdom contained in his words of counsel to those who will carry on the work under the Indiana unemployment compensation act. Asking that jobless persons be treated with understanding and warning against formalizing the work to be done, the Governor added a few words, the spirit of which should pervade the minds and hearth of all men and women who deal with those who are in need: “I want you to treat these unfortunate people with whom you will come in contact as human beings with emotions, with minds, with needs similar to our own. I don’t want you to treat them as exhibits A and B.”—The Delphi

Citizen.

Vice-President John Garner recently purchased a 23,436 acre cattle ranch in Texas.

During the week of June 29th to July fifth, this summer, there wlil be a reunion of the Blue and Gray (Civil War soldiers) at Gettysburg. This will be the 75th anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg.

The Westchester Racing Association is offering a $100,000 purse in a two-horse derby on May 30th. The race will be between War Admiral and Sea Biscuit for one and one-quarter miles. The winner gets the entire purse.

More people are killed on the highways on Sunday than on any day of the week.

Gasoline sells for 50 cents per gallon in Austria. The average price of gasoline in Europe is 39c per gallon.

Cleveland, Ohio, has a city ordinance which prohibits smoking in a Cleveland cemetery. Bulgaria has a national law which prohibits the use of cigarette lighters and imposes a heavy tax on matches. The matches are made aqd sold by the government.

OPINIONS OF OTHER EDITORS

People who are forever finding fault w T ith the Indiana gross income system—and all otl^er Indiana tax systems, for that matter —should study the advertising matter used by the Kroger stores this week. In those ads, which are

Already the consistent opponents of the Roosevelt administration have begun their clamor against the enactment of the relief and business revival program which was the subject of the President’s recent message to Congress. Mr. Snell, the extremely minority leader in the House, of course sees in it a usurpation of Congresisonal functions and an advance to dictatorship. If Franklin D. Roosevelt promulgated the Ten Commandments, Mr. Snell would be quick to point out that the proclamation was a subtly disguised effort of the Chief Executive to assume authority to regulate the morals of the American people and that if Congress endorsed the proposal it would mean the absolute destruction of the American form of government and the setting up of a Fascist system in this country. My favorite columnist, Mr. Frank Kent, is, of course, early on the job. He admits gloomily that “the prevailing opinion at t the moment is tlkt the Program will go through.” But ne insists that if it does, it will not be because. Congress approves of the measure, which has for its purpose re-start-ing the wheels of industry and commerce, the slowing down of which resulted in the recession that knocked down the stock market and increased unemployment, but for the simple-reason that the Congresmen on the eve of an election are not brave enough to vote against anything which involves the spending of money in their re-

spective districts.

Mr. Mark Sullivan almost beat Mr. Kent to this particular foray on the Roosevelt policy. He mournfully denies that the spurt of activity promised by the program “will give the country’s economic engine enough impetus so it will acquire a velocity sufficient to keep it going on its own power.” If Not This Plan, Then What? ' It is to be observed that none of these economists and statesmen suggests a better plan, or any substitute plan, for bringing about reemployment, providing for the destitute, or getting business back to healthy activity. They deplore the situation, set the blame for it on the President and, consistent as ever, they Insist that anything that the President piToposes must be wrong. It does not matter much whether what he does is aimed at accomplishing more efficiency in government, or desterilization of a billion dollars’ worth of gold in the inactive fund. Of course I have not plumber the profundity of these experts’ knowledge on the gold question, which has been the subject of debate among the fiscal authorities of the earth for some hundreds of years, and which this humble layman must admit is tHof intricate and technical for him to understand in all its applications. There is a story concerning a non-technical person’s presence in the midst of a grave and abstruse discussion of the merits of the conundrum. Finally, the money pundits asked the one neutral to express his view, and the answer ran something along this line: “You have, I admit, clarified the question to the extent that I now believe that one of three theories is tenable .though I have not yet been able to make up my mind which one of the .three is the valid

your arguments, and if neither of these things is true, it seems to me that you know no more about it than I do, and I know nothing.” This fable does not imply that there is not such a thing as monetary science, but it does convey that the question is so highly involved that the average non-tech-nical writer is as capable of analyzing it as that the fat lady at the circus may be supposed to understand the Einstein theory of

relativity.

To return to the topic of the socalled “pump-priming” as ^the method for ameliqrating the busi-

ness slump.

After reciting the effects the government believes it can produce with the new recovery pro-

They shut their eyes to the vast stretches of highways constructed throughout the country, to the public buildings that have been erected, to fifty thousand new schools, to the improvement of the forests and their protections against great fires to all of the work of the CCC camps, and the profit not only in material betterments but in the salvation of a million or two of boys from the perils and misery of being jobless, and to a thousand city and state improvements in the creation of which these funds had a great part. These things, and the circumstances that we came through a desperate period without violence and with American institutions in-

f an \ M !'; Mark Sidlivan says that thf’m^ney^ndi'ig 1 ’^!! tile'pro-

gram now before Congress is even

we can’t help remembering that is the same thing they said five years ago when they began their

first pump-priming.”

When Business Has the Mumps Suppose a child had the mumps, and the doctor fixed him up. and that five years later the same child had another attack of the mumps. How sensible would it be to say that the doctor should not use the same method he used before to effect a cure? I realize that in using this simile, I lay myself liable to somebody telling me that mumps is not a recurrent disease. Not being a columnist who knows everything, I am not prepared to debate

that question.

Five or six years ago this country was in the throes of a terrific economic disaster. Hungry people had to be fed re-employment was a desperate necessity, and business, screaming in its agony of almost complete collapse, had to be braced up. So a lot of money was spent, and some millions of people were put back at work, the entries on innumerable ledgers were changed from red into black, and profits and dividends and solvent banks became the ordinary incidents of our economic life. Anybody listening to those who would like to succeed the Roosevelt administration with another Hoover"esque period might believe that the billions dispersed by the government were thrown into the sea.

half as successful, the country can throw up its hat and cheer, despite the melancholy forebodings of those who take the position that whatever the Democratic administration attempts is unmixed evil. of DON’T LET THE DEBT PRO PAGAN D'l ST FOOL YOU Striking out to halt the recession, President Roosevelt has announced a new spending and lending program to stimulate business. He believes it is the duty of government to act, and to act now, to prevent further decline. In view of the President’s proposal, we find the opposition already at work. The conservative patrioteers are pointing with alarm at the growing national debt. They have begun an onslaught of propaganda to influence, members of Congress and the public against the President’s plan. Do you remember the agitation about the dangerouly large national debt just after the World war? We don’t. It was considered unpatriotic to complain about the

cost of war.

We warn against this debt propaganda. We say that it is the only way out and that the credit of the nation is not tottering. The per capita net debt of the federal government on April 5 of

this year was $213.04. The per capita net debt on Aug. 31, 1919 was $242.57, or 14 per cent greater than at the present time. In 1919 the government had a little more than one billion dollars cash on hand. In 1938, cash on hand plus the exchange Stabilization Fund, plus Sterlized Gold, all of which are equivalent of cash, amounted to nearly five billion dollars. The net debt of the United States is now $2,000,000,000 more than it was at the close, of the World war. But in two decades the population has increased 25,000,000 which makes the per capita debt less now than it was then. The national income has increased so that the net debt in proportion to national income is less today than in 1919. Debt can only be considered intelligently in relation to population and income in the nation. Why do the conservatives want to scare the people into thinking that a federal debt is a menace? Because when government goes into debt, it creates credit money and thereby dilutes the purchasing power of existing dollars and lowers interest rates. That is the reason the moneyed interests clamor for reduction of relief and other government spending. Debt of this nation is nowhere near the danger mark. If it were proportionately as large as that of Great Britain or France, it would be over one hundred dollars. We must fight the depression as we fought the war, prepare to spend what is necessary to win—and win we shall! •

short-circuit, they found that the school’s power line was overloaded.

The United States bureau of home economics developed more than 35 ways of serving corn meal.

SCHOOL TOO BRIGHT

prepared for the company’s stores

in Indiana and Ohio, there is one " “T” « or o p rp,, ’ 1C explanation. Either you people aie

item of interest. The price is $1.15 There is a notation, In Ohio Stores. $1.35.” Folks over in Ohio pay 20 cents more on a $1.15 item. There are thousands of other such items. Better think of this before you condemn the Indiana system.

—The Bremen Enquirer.

incoherent and cannot convey your meaning to me, or I am dumb and cannot follow the ramifications of

Richard Whitney, five times president of the New York Stock Exchange is now guest number 94,835 at Sing Sing. He recently started a five-to-ten year sentence for grand larceny.

TAPESTRIES IN MOTH BALLS

Cleveland. — Six 15th century tapestries, temporarily housed in jail, have been packed with mothballs by deputy sheriffs. The tapestries, valued at upward of $250,000, are being held pending litigation in New York which will decide their ownership.

Martha Raye, movie actress has been sued by her father for supiport. He asks for $500 for clothing and $50 per week. Stan Lourel, the film comedian, is evidently as foolish as he looks —recently he married the former Vera Shuvalova for the third time.

At St. Louis, Leonard Green charged in a divorce bill against his wife that she chewed tobacco.

Bandits hailed the car driven by Edward F. Hortsman, of Chicago, and after robbing him of $358 they threw carbolic acid in his face. His face was severely burned but spec : tacles protected his eyes.

Charles F. Reed far Judge of The Superior Court Republican Ticket

HARRY E. MOORE Democratic Candidate for COUNCILMAN THIRD DISTRICT-PRECINCTS 3, 15, 16, 17, 18 Your Support Will Be Appreciated

Herkimer, N. Y.—Herkimer high school’s lighting system staged an “on again, off again” act and power company investigators searched for a short-circuit. Instead of the

Lionel L. Harmison (The Old Sang) Democrat Candidate for CITY COUNCILMAN-AT-LARGE A Union Labor Represtntative with Executive Experience. M e m b e i> Flint Glass Workers Union, Amer. ican Legion, Reserve Officer, U S. A. (Americans for American Jobs) Primary Election May 3, 1938.

GEORGE W. BRINSON Your support will be appreciated. Candidate for Commissioner Second District Republican Ticket

LESLIE BRAND Candidate for County Assessor DEMOCRATIC TICKET

VOTE FOR LESTER E. HOLLOWAY DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR Treasurer Delaware County Due to rush of business of taxpaying in my office, I am unable to personally call on you for your support. I shall appreciate your tuning in over Radio Station WLBC at 6:45 o’clock Monday evening, May 2nd, and hear my broadcast.

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Evison H. Davis Democratic Candidate for CITY CLERK My Pledge to the Voters: If nominated and elected CITY -CLERK I will conduct the office and myself so that those who supported me will have no regrets.

“There’s no thrill in easy sailing, When the sky is clear and blue. There’s no joy in merely doing Things which anyone can do. *But there is some satisfaction That is mighty sweet to take. When you reach a destination That you thought you couldn’t make.”

BERT CLOCK for COMMITTEEMAN 8th Precinct DEMOCRATIC TICKET

A Business Administration and an Honest, Honorable Municipal Government are Pledged by CLARKE F. JOHNSON DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE for MAYOR OF MUNCIE The Working Man Candidate and Champion of the Cause of the Common People Invites You to Listen in on Radio Station WLBC Between 8 and 8:30 p.m. Saturday and 6:30 and 6:45 p.m. Monday to Hear His Final Speeches of the Campaign. ' Your Ballot for Johnson Will Be a Vote for DECENCY IN POLITICS

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